Politics of African Industrial Policy

Politics of African Industrial Policy

A Comparative Perspective

Buur, Lars; Therkildsen, Ole; Whitfield, Lindsay; Mette Kj'r, Anne

Cambridge University Press

02/2017

356

Mole

Inglês

9781107512580

15 a 20 dias

Using comparative research to theorize about the politics of industrial policy in countries in the early stages of capitalist transformation that also experience the pressures of elections, this book provides four in-depth African country studies that illustrate the challenges to economic transformation and the politics of implementing industrial policies.
1. The puzzle of limited economic transformation in Africa; Part I. Rethinking the Political Economy of Development: 2. The case for economic transformation and industrial policy; 3. Assessing economic transformation in Africa; 4. Elaborated political settlements theory and clientelism in Africa; Part II. Evolution of Political Settlements: 5. Increased vulnerability and contestation in Mozambique and Tanzania; 6. Dispersed power and elite fragmentation in Ghana and Uganda; Part III. African Experiences with Industrial Policy: 7. Mozambique: between elite capture and pockets of efficiency; 8. Tanzania: intense contestation within a weak dominant party; 9. Ghana: competitive clientelism and weak capitalists; 10. Uganda: competing factions and conflicting elite interests; 11. Conclusions and perspectives.
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